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MSI Slatebook: Microsoft’s Best Windows 7 Tablet Hope?

According to DigiTimes, MSI is going to be showing off a tablet next month at Computex. What it is: a 10-inch Atom-based system running Windows 7. What it’s not: one of the Tegra 2 tablets we’ve been yearning for. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-confirms-tegra-2-will-be-in-tablets-in-2010-5442839 Other details are scarce—and DigiTimes isn’t always the most reliable source—but it appears the Slatebook…

Tech News Brian Barrett

ASUS’ EeePad Ready For July Launch

EeePad is go, according to ASUS’ Chairman Jerry Shen, who will be showing it off this June at Computex as planned. However, a launch date has also been mentioned by the Taiwanese—an early-sounding late July. https://gizmodo.com/eeepad-to-be-unveiled-this-june-will-cost-500-5452622 It’s bound to be dirt-cheap which is why it’s of interest in this every-CEO-and-his-dog time, though Digitimes is reporting…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Asus ‘Seamless Experience’ Concept Knows More About Your Coffee Than You Do

This slick Seamless Experience video from the Asus Computex booth is a neat glimpse at a future where even coffee cups have a story to tell. It looks, unsurprisingly, like Microsoft Surface. Let the marketing concept arms race commence. Judging from the concept, the future works surprisingly well, so long as your desktop is populated…

Tech News Jack Loftus

Hybrid Android/XP Tablet/Laptop Looks Nice, Has Me Confused

At first this seems like a good idea: A tablet that runs Android in stand-alone mode. Then you connect it to an HP Mini 1000 netbook and it will run Windows XP. Then I wonder how the data—the address book, the music, calendar, etc.—will be kept synchronized between its Android and XP personalities. Did they…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

Acer’s Android Netbook Will Come With Windows, Fail at Being an “Android Netbook”

When a company says they’re working on an Android netbook, people make assumptions: they’ll come up with a fresh UI; they’ll cater the netbook’s hardware to Google’s lightweight OS; they’ll make it cheap. Acer is doing none of these things. https://gizmodo.com/acer-planning-an-android-netbook-for-q3-of-this-year-5275329 Their Android netbook will actually be an Windows XP netbook, in that it’ll ship…

Tech News John Herrman

Computex Spawns Hellish “MID Phone” Phenomenon

New device categories almost invariably fall between preexisting ones. Sometimes they find a useful niche, like netbooks. Other times, they seem like obsessive compulsive attempts to fill a tiny, intentional gap in the spectrum of consumer electronics. Like MID phones! These confusing little monsters have been popping up all over Computex. They’re essentially mobile internet…

Tech News John Herrman

Atom-Based Ferrari Makes Up for Lack of Horsepower With Extreme Levels of Novelty

There really isn’t a whole lot that distinguishes a conference like Computex from a real life version of the Ben Heck forums: yesterday, we saw a PC in a vase; today, an Atom-based net-top in a Ferrari. https://gizmodo.com/pc-in-a-vase-was-created-by-a-real-company-not-a-dodgy-5275640 We don’t know much about this mini-Modena, except that it’s got netbookish guts and some definite kid…

Tech News John Herrman

SilverPac SilverFrame Is a Questionably Acceptable Use of the Term ‘Digital Picture Frame’

If a device has a 10.1-inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 512MB of RAM, 1GB of flash storage, Windows, a browser and an IM client, isn’t it really just a PC? If you’re SilverPac, apparently not. [Slashgear via BBG]

Tech News John Herrman

Microsoft Wants to Rebrand Netbooks ‘Low-Cost Small Notebook PCs’

Microsoft wants us to move away from the term “netbook”, instead referring to the tiny, cheap laptops, which the company says demand recognition for handling more than just browsing, as—brace yourselves—”low cost small notebook PCs”, according to Digitimes. Sorry, Intel! https://gizmodo.com/psions-netbook-copyright-fight-is-officially-dead-in-th-5273801 Steven Guggenheimer, general manager of Application Platform & Development Marketing, outlined the plan in…

Tech News John Herrman

DigiLife Crams a Pico Projector Into a Pocket Camcorder

DigiLife’s DDV-JF1 pocket camcorder rocks mostly the same features as other mini-cams like the Flip HD, including 720p recording and a 2.5-inch LCD. But it’s got a trick up its sleeve—a 640×360 pico projector built right in. No word on price or availability yet, though. [Engadget]

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Nvidia Announces 12 Tegra Products You’ll Probably Never See, Tweaks Expectations

Nvidia is using Computex to herald the arrival of their system-on-a-chip Tegra platform, but it’s not the most explosive debut. They’ve announced 12 netbook and tablet products from relative unknowns, and bizarrely altered their claims about the platform’s capabilities. https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-tegra-all-in-one-mobile-processors-aim-to-nuke-i-5012159 Don’t get me wrong—I’m dead excited about the Tegra—but these names don’t really get my…

Tech News John Herrman

Nvidia Ion-Powered Cheap PCs Arrive En Masse

Lenovo and Acer were the first, but now they’re not the only ones with cheap computers powered by Nvidia’s Ion platform—GeForce 9400M graphics paired with an Intel Atom CPU. Besides Asus’s eeetop here, there’s 20 others, though you won’t find the likes of Dell or HP here: https://gizmodo.com/lenovo-s12-is-the-first-netbook-with-nvidia-ion-costs-5268833 NVIDIA ENERGIZES COMPUTEX WITH NEW ION-BASED PC…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

New Gadget Will Synchronize Your iPhone or iPod Wirelessly

Soon you will be able to synchronize your iPhone or iPod touch to your PC or Mac, using a low power chip from Alereon. The new device—a reference design to be used by third-party manufacturers—is small and have a built-in battery that will supply electricity to the iPhone while it’s synchronizing with iTunes without any…

Tech News Jesus Diaz

New Asus Eee Seashell Features 11.6-Inch Screen and 11-Hour Battery

We loved Asus’ super-slim Eee Seashell, and it looks like Asus can see they might have a hit on their hands. In Asus’ mind, that means it’s time to bring on the new models, and the first seems to be an 11.6-inch Seashell with an alleged 11-hour battery life. https://gizmodo.com/the-asus-eee-seashell-review-the-netbook-is-back-5267391 We’ll presumably hear more about…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz

Flex Mini from cRadia Is Smallest Ever Portable Laptop Fan

cRadia’s portable laptop fan could be the perfect on-the-go solution for penis burn, something I have written about frequently on the Giz, despite never suffering from it. The Flex Mini is designed for any laptop between ten and 20 inches, and packs up into a small-ish little package for you to cart about in your…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

Portable Projector for iPhone is Concept from Honlai

On show at Computex is Honlai’s portable projector for the iPhone. It’s a dock-style gadget that you slot your first-gen iPhone into, beaming a smallish image onto the wall in front of you. This strikes me as such a good idea—it’s currently just a concept—that I really hope Honlai, the brains behind this palm-sized LED…

Tech News AddyDugdale

Aiptek Pocket Projector Can Probably Shine Larger Than Your TV

Continuing an increasingly apparent trend at Computex, Aiptek is planning to show their new PocketCinema V10 mini-projector, which they say is rated to display images up to a diagonal 50 inches. Details are still a little slim at the moment, but Aiptek has released a basic spec set, claiming a support for MPEG-4 video, JPEG…

Tech News John Herrman

Albatron Rocker Mini Tablet Has Windows CE and Not Much Heft

An ultra slimline tablet from Albatron has been unveiled at Computex. The Rocker has a seven-inch 800 x 480 touchscreen, 128MB flash memory, Wi-fi, Bluetooth, a webcam, and SD and MMC slots. Weighing just 343 grams, the battery runs for six hours on a single charge, and it runs Windows CE. Not too shabby, really.…

Gadgets AddyDugdale

ASUS Laptop With Built-In Projector Raises PowerPoint Threat to “Critical”

Tucked away in a quiet corner at Computex, ASUS is showing a nondescript laptop with a built-in pico projector. Tiny projectors have made various appearances at the tech show so far, most recently from Foxconn, but no other company has incorporated them into existing products, or for that matter shown many compelling applications for them…

Tech News John Herrman

ASUS Previews HDMI Sound Card With Hidden Video Talents

The Xonar HDAV 1.3 might the first sound card to claim to full HDMI 1.3a support, but ASUS has a few more tricks up their sleeves that could make it interesting to non-audiophiles. The Xonar is capable of performing some corrective post-processing effects on HD video with its “Splendid HD” chip, saving precious CPU cycles.…

Tech News John Herrman

MSI Slatebook: Microsoft’s Best Windows 7 Tablet Hope?

ASUS’ EeePad Ready For July Launch

Asus ‘Seamless Experience’ Concept Knows More About Your Coffee Than You Do

Hybrid Android/XP Tablet/Laptop Looks Nice, Has Me Confused

Acer’s Android Netbook Will Come With Windows, Fail at Being an “Android Netbook”

Computex Spawns Hellish “MID Phone” Phenomenon

Atom-Based Ferrari Makes Up for Lack of Horsepower With Extreme Levels of Novelty

SilverPac SilverFrame Is a Questionably Acceptable Use of the Term ‘Digital Picture Frame’

Microsoft Wants to Rebrand Netbooks ‘Low-Cost Small Notebook PCs’

DigiLife Crams a Pico Projector Into a Pocket Camcorder

Nvidia Announces 12 Tegra Products You’ll Probably Never See, Tweaks Expectations

Nvidia Ion-Powered Cheap PCs Arrive En Masse

New Gadget Will Synchronize Your iPhone or iPod Wirelessly

New Asus Eee Seashell Features 11.6-Inch Screen and 11-Hour Battery

Flex Mini from cRadia Is Smallest Ever Portable Laptop Fan

Portable Projector for iPhone is Concept from Honlai

Aiptek Pocket Projector Can Probably Shine Larger Than Your TV

Albatron Rocker Mini Tablet Has Windows CE and Not Much Heft

ASUS Laptop With Built-In Projector Raises PowerPoint Threat to “Critical”

ASUS Previews HDMI Sound Card With Hidden Video Talents

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